A hacker group named Lulzsec India claimed to gain access in the confidential section of the Rajya Sabha website by creating a bypass in the login credentials of the Rajya Sabha members, according to a report published in Scroll.in.

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March 21, 2018, 16:38 IST

A group of hackers has claimed to gain access of confidential section of the Rajya Sabhawebsite which only permits members of the Upper House and administrators login. In support of their claims, the group named Lulzsec India, posted screenshots of confidential data on Twitter on Sunday night, allegedly after logging into the account of Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit Shah, who is also a Rajya Sabha member.

The images uploaded by the hacker group shows that they can easily gained the access to classified details including Shah’s email on the Rajya Sabha domain, text messages sent by public to the Rajya Sabha members on their official numbers, bulletins, details on debates, business in the Parliament, telephone bills, electricity and water bills, bills pertaining to travel allowance, and money transfers to official bank accounts.

Hackers further claimed to bypass the login credentials of the Rajya Sabha members in the process of encrypting the access of the website.

The Rajya Sabha website comes under the domain of the National Informatics Centre, which bridges a communication network of institutional linkages among all ministries and departments of the central government, several channels of state governments and union territories and as many as 688 district administrations.

“This incident has once again exposed the weak security infrastructure of websites under the NIC domain,” said Kislay Chaudhary, a cyber security expert and consultant to several government agencies. “It is high time that government agencies should develop a long-term and round-the-year mechanism for security audits instead of going for them on long intervals, which prove to be inadequate in terms of catching up with updates and upgrades of programmes that run servers.” As said to Scroll.in.